license-checker-tool: handle word wraps / ignore `-\n`

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#342 abierto el 23/8/2025 3 comentarios 1 reacción 0 asignados Ver en GitHub

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Evaluación

Dificultad: 3/5
Tiempo estimado: 1-2 días
Aptitud para principiantes: 45/100

Tipo de issue: Error
Claridad: Bastante claro
Estado de actividad: Estancado
Stack tecnológico: java
Área: tooling

Línea de trabajo

Comienza localizando el license-checker-tool y sus pruebas correspondientes; después reproduce el ejemplo de licencia de XFree86 proporcionado con sus palabras divididas mediante guiones. La tarea está terminada cuando las palabras divididas como “fur-nished” y “FIT-NESS” se normalicen para que el comprobador de licencias reconozca la licencia.

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Descripción

matching

example license from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxres/-/blob/460d11002d20683420fdb0d09ab3c7a0cccd74f4/COPYING

Copyright (c) 2002  XFree86 Inc
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is fur-
nished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FIT-
NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CON-
NECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall not
be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other deal-
ings in this Software without prior written authorization from the XFree86
Project.

it includes several word wraps which split words between lines with -

i suggest the license checker tool should recognize this to better match licenses like that